UnburdenAmerica

Unburden America is a public awareness and advocacy movement built around a simple question: What if the country is trying to fund a modern economy with an outdated tax base? The movement exists to bring this idea out of narrow policy circles and into public conversation. Its purpose is not just to publish a proposal, but to help Americans understand it, debate it, challenge it, and decide whether it deserves serious national attention.

It does not fit neatly into either category. People on the left may respond to the idea of tax fairness, stronger public commitments, and reducing the burden on ordinary workers. People on the right may respond to lower taxes on work, stronger incentives for hiring and business growth, fiscal discipline, and serious debt reduction. Unburden America is built around the belief that the tax base question is bigger than ordinary partisan categories.

Unburden America wants to move this proposal from the margins of policy discussion into the mainstream of public debate. Current goals include: • building broad public awareness of the proposal, • inviting scrutiny, debate, and refinement, • gathering 1 million supporters who want the idea taken seriously, • and creating enough public traction that the proposal becomes a question on the 2028 presidential debate stage. This movement is not built on the idea that change happens quietly. It is built around the idea that the public deserves to see, understand, and weigh a proposal of this scale.

Because ideas of this scale should not remain trapped in narrow expert circles. The public is already living with the effects of the current system: squeezed workers, strained businesses, debt pressure, and endless political fights over scarcity. If the tax base itself may be part of the problem, then the public deserves a chance to examine that argument directly.

Because constant political conflict over money shapes everything else. When the country is trapped in endless fights over how to pay for basic priorities, scarcity politics gets worse. Unburden America argues that a stronger and more modern revenue base could reduce some of that zero-sum pressure. It would not end disagreement. But it could lower the temperature and change the terms of the argument.

Because tax systems often lag behind economic reality. Large structural systems tend to persist long after the economy around them has changed. Once a tax base is politically familiar, it becomes easy to argue over rates and hard to rethink the structure itself. Unburden America is trying to bring that deeper question back into public view.

You can help by learning the idea, sharing it, challenging it, discussing it with others, and adding your name in support if you believe it deserves serious public attention. This movement is built on the belief that public understanding has to come before political change can happen